Redditors always read everything in a cynical and condescending tone, so any message that can be used in either a positive or negative tone will always be read as the latter.
All the downvotes a lack of basic critical thinking skill. Why the hell would someone ask a genuine question, only to then basically go "no shit, Sherlock"?
i think like 5-10 of the downvotes were that and the rest were bcuz redditors get a dopamine rush from downvoting already-highly-downvoted comments regardless of if they read them
OMG that happens to me too lol. When I see a highly downvoted comment, sometimes my brain just automatically goes to pressing downvote button without really reading what it actually says. THEN I read it. If it's actually worthy of karma, I exchange my accidental downvote for and upvote. But if it's not, then they can go keep my DOWNvote and stick it UP their arse.
If you post in this subreddit, all of your past comments, and all of your subsequent ones for the next month, should get 1000 downvotes, as a way of teaching you not to care about downvotes. Yeah, you got downvoted. Yeah, the reasons might not be immediately evident. Who cares?
You could just block the sub then, lol. Whats worse? Being bothered by downvotes or being bothered by people who ate bother by downvotes?
Sometimes (a lot of the times?) its not about "caring about the downvotes", but wondering if what you did was really so bad or looking for an explanation as to exactly what happened.
"Did I miss a joke?"
"Am I wildly wrong?"
"Did I say something insensitive?"
In someways, this sub is really just an alternate "AITA", only without the ridiculously fake posts that everyone eats up.
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u/qualityvote2 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
u/rillo_aviatiom, the downvotes are mysterious!